
Exposed by Mrs. Huang on the spot, Duanmu Xinmiao did not blush at all and she said sternly, "Granny Huang, I am also thinking for young madam. If she gives me the bracelets, I will make them into medicinal bracelets for her. It'll be very convenient for her to use it to teach the concubines a lesson. You should have known how good the medicinal bracelets I made were, and people could smell nothing. Ordinary doctors won’t be able to find it out. So even if there isn't a concubine, your young madam can send the bracelets to others if any madam or miss is not to her taste in the future, which is once and for all, saving her from leaving a stigma. What a good thing! If it were not for that I hadn't been able to find jade good enough recently, I wouldn't give her the chance!"
Mrs. Huang was afraid that Wei Changying would be really tempted, so she coughed drily and said, "Eighth Miss, that's because all your good pieces of jade jewelry were destroyed when you soaked them in the decoction. With so many pieces of jewelry, you only succeeded in making one bracelet. The bracelets you fancy now were the betrothal gift given to young madam by the Shen Family, and it couldn't be destroyed."
Had it not been for Duanmu Xinmiao’s low success rate, Mrs. Huang would definitely have helped her persuade Wei Changying. Shen Cangfeng now had no concubines and the couple was sweet, however, it was also good to keep this thing. It might not only be used to deal with concubines. It could be passed on to descendants as a best card.
Duanmu Xinmiao had just succeeded once so far, and she had been exposed. Although she was brazen enough, she had no words at the moment and said resentfully, "Your young madam is quite rich. Besides, she has her dowries after she got married. She is different from unmarried girls like me who haven't married and have no properties. Isn't it easy for her to find a bunch of good pieces of jade? If this pair won't do, then change another one. As long as it is bright and clear, I can give up this one."
Interrupted by Duammu Xinmiao, Wei Changying's anger subsided. Besides, Mrs. Huang came out and Wei Changying didn't have interests in arguing with her. So she said lightly, "You can only meet such jade jewelry once in a lifetime. It's possible that you can't buy it even with a lot of money."
Duanmu Xinmiao squinted at her and said, "If you are willing to give me two of them, they will be yours if I succeed, and I won't charge you for the medicine."
"Wait till I get back." Wei Changying and Mrs. Huang looked at each other, and said vaguely, "I can't wear the gorgeous color of jade at my age. I don't have much jade in my box, and top jade is fewer."
Now Wei Changying and her husband were a sweet couple. Although Wei Changying thought Shen Cangfeng would be loyal to her in the future, as Mrs. Huang expected, if Duanmu Xinmiao could really make medicinal jewelry without flaws, it would do no harm to get one as a backhand.
For example, after Duanmu Xinmiao succeeded, Wei Changying thought that if she could make sure that the fifth branch of the Liu Family was those who had spread her rumor in the capital last year...Should she ask about Liu Ruoye's or Mrs. Zhang's birthday and send them one or two?
"Then let's make a deal!" Duanmu Xinmiao immediately burst into smile and said, "I'll see you in two days. You have to find the things and wait for me!"
Wei Changying, "..." Since she met Gu Naizheng, how come she met someone like Gu Naizheng's closest relatives in the previous life one after another? She didn't know Duanmu Xinmiao at all in the past. Today, as soon as they just met each other, they had a fight and Wei Changying tore Duanmu Xinmiao’s clothes. Until now, Duanmu Xinmiao still had half of her shoulder exposed! However, she immediately laughed and talked to Wei Changying and even took the initiative to visit her later...
The hospitality of Ji Qubing's disciple was more than that. After asking for something, Duanmu Xinmiao couldn't see that Wei Changying was almost inhuman. Duanmu Xinmiao was sophisticated and said, "Don't look like this! I was not really trying to grab your jade, was I? It was just that I was worried about my prescriptions and I didn’t make it clear to you! You see, you also tore my upper shirt as revenge. No discord, no concord. We are all daughters of eminent families. Why bother to imitate the small-mindedness of those small-minded households and stay away from each other forever after a small fight? Now that’s all clear, can we just forget about it?"
She sighed again, "If you are still unhappy, shall I apologize to you again?"
Wei Changying smiled wryly in her heart and said, "I also did something wrong just now. I hope you can forgive me..."
Wei Changying couldn't change her face completely and devoid of emotion like flipping a book as Duanmu Xinmiao did. Furthermore, the two did not have a deep hatred before, and now it was indeed Duanmu Xinmiao who had suffered even more. Duanmu Xinmiao smiled and took the initiative to apologize. How could Wei Changying be annoyed with Duanmu Xinmiao anymore...There was only one thought in Wei Changying heart. At least, she would lose one good piece of jade jewelry. The two were now reconciled. With her identity, how could Wei Changying tell Duanmu Xinmiao that she didn't have other good jade jewelry except for this pair of jade bracelets?
In any case, Wei Changying had to take one out to deal with Duanmu Xinmiao...
Duanmu Xinmiao was afraid that she could not get closer to Wei Changying as soon as possible, and she insisted on keeping them for dinner. But she really couldn't keep them, so she said, "Then you wait for me here. I'll change my upper shirt and send you away!" She repeatedly emphasized, "You must wait for me!"
After saying that, she covered the damaged part of her upper shirt, and hurriedly ran to the back yard, carrying the skirt.
After Duanmu Xinmiao disappeared behind the wall, Wei Changying turned her head and asked Mrs. Huang, "Granny, did you hear it? The Eighth Miss of the Duanmu Family...Actually, she had been living with hysteria since she was young, right?" Wasn't she arguing or even fighting with Wei Changying? Why was it that the two of them buried the hatchet and Wei Changying had to go back, preparing at least one beautiful piece of jade jewelry as well as waiting for Duanmu Xinmiao's visit?
Mrs. Huang was embarrassed, and she replied lamely, "Eighth Miss is very addicted to pharmacology. When it comes to this, she will get soft in the head. This medicinal bracelet is the art of making jewelry into an invisible murderous tool without showing any traces. Eighth Miss came up with it last year and finally she succeeded in making a pair of bracelets after ruining a lot of jewelry. I had seen that pair of bracelets. They were indeed nothing unusual. Since I followed Miracle Doctor Ji, I was most concerned about the poison. People couldn't see it without taking it in their hand and trying it with a few drugs. Eighth Miss put a bracelet on the rabbit next to her body, and the rabbit died within two days. It was the same with the mastiff."
"..." Wei Changying said with horror, "How much jewelry did she destroy in total?" The effect was so good that she was tempted for curiosity. It was just that she had to calculate the cost first. Otherwise, no matter how much she had, she couldn't handle spending money like water!
Mrs. Huang said with a wry smile, "The Old Madam of the Duanmu Family loved Eighth Miss's eldest sister the most during her lifetime, and she is the current Princess Consort Cai. The Old Madam of the Duanmu Family was famous for her love of jade. When Princess Consort Cai was married as Crown Princess, Old Madam seemed to take out two-thirds of her private possessions as Princess Consort Cai's dowries! Later, Crown Princess became Princess Consort Cai and Duke Cai was died. Princess Consort Cai had no intention of dressing up while guarding the royal heir. I heard that she gave all the colorful and bright hairpins and rings in her dowries to Eighth Miss! Besides, when the Old Madam of the Duanmu Family passed away, Eighth Miss also got her share."
The Old Madam who had managed such an eminent household within the six gentlefolks throughout the country was overwhelmingly rich. Wei Changying, who had won the favor of her grandmother Old Madam Song, and had been in and out of Old Madam Song's private warehouse since childhood, couldn't be clearer. After she heard that, she gasped for breath and asked, "All?"
"She only made a pair of bracelets!" Mrs. Huang nodded in pain.
If Mrs. Huang was the granny who was in charge beside Duanmu Xinmiao, she would have knelt down and hugged Duanmu Xinmiao's legs, begging her to wake up! There were so many pieces of good jade jewelry and many of them were handed down from the past. Even after hundreds of years, they were still as fresh as the beginning! When Duanmu Xinmiao told Ji Qubing about her result, she roughly mentioned it. Mrs. Huang heard it. Then she estimated that if all the jewelry destroyed by Duanmu Xinmiao was turned into cash, it would be enough to feed a troop of hundreds of people!
The well-equipped and well-paid kind!
Besides, Duanmu Xinmiao was proficient in pharmacology and medicine. Did she need to make such a bracelet if she wanted to secretly kill someone who she didn't like? A quack doctor could kill people without a knife, and no one would know if a good doctor harmed someone!
Wei Changying clutched Mrs. Huang's arm and asked solemnly, "What should I do? The least valuable jewelry in my place...Can I use it to deal with her?" She originally thought that Duanmu Xinmiao, a miss who didn't get married, wouldn't have top-notch hairpins. All of those should be held for her in the hands of the elders. Therefore, she couldn't ruin many good things, and there was a precedent for success. Wei Changying still took a chance, but who would have thought that Duanmu Xinmiao was such an imposing person? The things ruined by her were almost worthy of Wei Changying's dowry!
"What Eighth Miss wanted was the best jade."
Even the size of a fingernail was quite valuable. Otherwise, with Duanmu Xinmiao's identity, how could she ignore the former hatred and kept pestering Wei Changying to ask for jade?
Princess Consort Cai's heart was like dead ashes now. After all, she gave all the things to her younger sister. No matter what her younger sister did with them, she didn't bother to ask. Even if she knew it, she didn't care about it. If Old Madam of the Duanmu Family who was famous for her love of jade knew this fact, she would likely crawl out of the grave to find this unfilial granddaughter desperately.
Wei Changying murmured, "In such a harmony scene, should I give up the priceless things? Can I ignore her?" If she just gave Duanmu Xinmiao her jewelry with knowing clearly that they would be destroyed by Duanmu Xinmiao, it would be too...
Mrs. Huang reminded her implicitly, "Miracle Doctor Ji often praised Eighth Miss for her perseverance. Unlike those noble women, she was not delicate, and she also despised undeserved reputation."
The meaning of her words was that Duanmu Xinmiao was very persistent in stalking. Unlike a normal noble miss, she was shameless...She could definitely ignore all reputation for a good jade...
Why did I get involved with such a girl? Wei Changying felt really tricky now. She was unwilling to give up the jade. Though she came from an eminent family, she was not a fool. If she had to hand over a good piece of jade jewelry because of the pleasure of having met once, then the fate would be too valuable!
However, Duanmu Xinmiao was so humble before, and Wei Changying gave up making peace with her. Now if Wei Changying wanted to turn against Duanmu Xinmiao...As a normal noble woman who still wanted to save face, Wei Changying hoped to turn around and leave immediately. But she felt that she had promised Duanmu Xinmiao before, so it would seem despicable to leave without saying goodbye.
Moreover, as Duanmu Xinmiao had plans, she was not likely to let Wei Changying go so easily. Thinking of the scene in which Duanmu Xinmiao quickly admitted her mistake in a second, Wei Changying had a headache...
At this time, Duanmu Xinmiao finally came back and changed to an apricot-colored upper shirt. Both the lapel and sleeves were embroidered with gorgeous folded peonies, and they were cut by people of the Yue State. It inevitably did not match the green skirt made with coarse cloth underneath. Wei Changying guessed that Duanmu Xinmiao put on the coarse cloth dress to deal with the medicinal materials, and now the upper shirt of the Yue State was her usual wear.
However, Duanmu Xinmiao went away for so long. Wei Changying thought that Duanmu Xinmiao had changed all her dresses, but she only changed her upper shirt...When Duanmu Xinmiao got closer, Wei Changying saw that she was holding an oil paper bag in her hand. The bag was tied with a wishful knot with twine. Duanmu Xinmiao smiled, handed it over to Wei Changying and said, "This is the rose tea made by myself. It's nice to drink. Take it back and try it."
Wei Changying subconsciously said, "I don't like rose tea." She was wondering how to alienate Duanmu Xinmiao. When they got alienated, Duanmu Xinmiao would be embarrassed to come and ask Wei Changying for jade. How could Wei Changying still accept Duanmu Xinmiao's things?
"Ah, that's troublesome, I put it in the rose..." Duanmu Xinmiao awakened halfway through her words, and she hurriedly laughed, then she said, "I made it myself. Why not give me a chance and drink it at least three times?"
Wei Changying didn't have much contact with the doctors. Before she realized it, Mrs. Huang figured it out and said in a deep voice, "Eighth Miss, what have you done to our young madam?!"
"Ah, could that be blamed on me?" Duanmu Xinmiao looked up and down, but she did not look at Wei Changying and Mrs. Huang. Duanmu Xinmiao whispered, "My dresses had all been soaked in decoction, and the sachets on my body were poisonous. It would be fine if someone just passed me. But who asked her to tear my upper shirt and press my shoulder for so long..."
Seeing that Wei Changying and Mrs. Huang's faces turned increasingly dark, Duanmu Xinmiao felt bad, so she quickly explained it to them, "I wanted to keep you for food and secretly detoxify the poison, but you refused to stay. I had to rush to put the antidote here. It's in the rose tea! Don't worry, and it's not a bad medicine. It's just that after returning home, you will get a rash at night, scratching your heart and itching your liver. Without my antidote, it would be useless to see the doctors...But it'll be fine after ten nights."
Then she introduced, "So I gave it a name, which is called Ten Night Blood."
"During ten nights of scratching, the whole body would be covered in blood..." Wei Changying gritted her teeth and sneered, "It's really a good name, but who can survive ten nights? People couldn't bear that and would die long in between."
Duanmu Xinmiao replied embarrassedly, "You take this antidote and go back to make a pot of rose tea. Drink it three times, and you will be fine. Now it is not night, and you will not experience that."
Wei Changying felt that she should take the opportunity to refuse Duanmu Xinmiao's visit. Unexpectedly, before Wei Changying said something, Duanmu Xinmiao added pitifully, "Sister Wei, I knew I should remind you at that time, but I was afraid that you would misunderstand me! You were so angry. What could I do if you thought that I was provoking you? You see, I just wanted to keep you for dinner, and now I don’t hesitate to offend you to tell you the truth. I just don’t want to really hurt you! If you are still unhappy, I'm right here and please beat me or scold me, okay? This upper shirt hadn't been soaked in decoction! You can ask Granny Huang to check! You should never stop giving me jade! I have already known how to dip the medicine into the jade without damaging its color. Really! As long as you are willing to give me the jade, you can hit me whatever you want!"
"Nothing." Seeing her innocent and pitiful eyes, the gestures of waiting to be punished at others' will, and her apologetic smile, Wei Changying was silent for a moment and said it quite bitterly. Her heart was bleeding!
Wei Changying thought, "Why couldn't I be as shameless as Gu Naizheng?"At this moment, she suddenly felt that she was actually inferior to Gu Naizheng.


